Boots Co. to Buy Some Brands
Of Colgate-Palmolive in Asia

a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter

Updated June 17, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

Boots Co. said its Boots Healthcare International unit plans to buy Colgate-Palmolive Co.'s Savlon and UV/Reef skin-care brands in Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and New Zealand; the price wasn't disclosed. In a news release, Boots said the purchase will give it a "major presence" in the Pacific skin-care market.

BHI is Boots' over-the-counter medicine business. Boots is a British retail and drugstore group with operations in the United Kingdom, France and...